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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §3.3.72.pr

Preserving Actions and Rights through a Procurator

Passage 555 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains specific examples where actions taken through a procurator do not acquire new actions but rather retain existing ones or rights, such as suing within the lawful period or forbidding a new work.

[IDEM libro primo manualium. ] §3.3.72.prPer procuratorem non semper adquirimus actiones, sed retinemus: ueluti si reum conueniat intra legitimum tempus: uel si prohibeat opus nouum fieri, ut interdictum nobis utile sit quod ui aut clam, nam et hic pristinum ius nobis conseruat.
[THE SAME in the first book of Manuals.] Through a procurator we do not always acquire actions, but we retain them: as for example, if he sues the defendant within the lawful period; or if he forbids a new work to be done, so that the interdict "by force or stealth" may be useful to us, for in this case too, it preserves our former right.

Notes

  1. §3.3.72.prconueniat — The third-person singular present subjunctive of the transitive verb conuenio (to sue, summon). The subject is contextually the procurator (agent), forming a conditional clause with reum (defendant) as its accusative object.
  2. §3.3.72.prquod ui aut clam — A legal formula referring to the interdict "concerning what is done by force or stealth" (interdictum quod vi aut clam), where quod is the neuter relative pronoun referring back to interdictum.
  3. §3.3.72.pret hic — hic is an adverb meaning 'here' or 'in this case', so et hic translates to 'in this case too'. While it could theoretically be interpreted as the masculine singular nominative demonstrative referring to the procurator, taking it as an adverb referring to the entire situation of the prohibition is more natural.

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §3.3.72.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:3.3.72.pr

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